New York · Private foundation
Simple Gifts Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Simple Gifts Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $60k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $67k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $82k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $78k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $56k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $75k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $55k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $76k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Audiences of Western New York Inc D/B/A Arts for Learning Wny | $41,059 | 5 | 2% |
| Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Preservation Buffalo Niagara | $23,750 | 5 | 4% |
| Torn Space Theater Inc | $19,250 | 8 | 1% |
| Nusantara Arts Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Girls Education Collaborative Inc | $16,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | $15,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Via Visually Impaired Advancement | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Park School of Buffalo | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes Inc | $9,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($236k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simple Gifts Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation
How this is measured
About Simple Gifts Fund
- How much does Simple Gifts Fund give?
- Simple Gifts Fund reported 36 grants totaling $62,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Simple Gifts Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Simple Gifts Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Audiences of Western New York Inc D/B/A Arts for Learning Wny ($41k), Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ($27k), Preservation Buffalo Niagara ($24k).
- Does Simple Gifts Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simple Gifts Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Simple Gifts Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Western New York Foundation, The Baird Foundation.
- Where is Simple Gifts Fund based?
- Simple Gifts Fund is based in NY.
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